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Former Democratic state lawmaker and Albuquerque Public Schools employee Sheryl Williams Stapleton pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday to 29 federal charges. They include fraud, conspiracy, bribery and money laundering.
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More than two thousand victims of the state's largest-ever wildfire have filed claims under federal law, as communities complain a federal compensation program has been unacceptably slow.
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Mandates for auto dealers to provide an increasing number of electric vehicles for sale across New Mexico will remain in place as state regulators on Friday denied an effort to derail implementation of the new rules pending a legal challenge.
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The Albuquerque Police Department’s Fleet Crash Review Board and its Fatal Crash Unit have reviewed the chief’s actions leading up to him running a red light and crashing into another vehicle while fleeing the sound of gunfire.
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Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller’s administration released a $1.4 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2025 on Tuesday. The 2.3% increase over last fiscal year focuses on big picture categories like public safety, housing, homelessness, behavioral health, jobs, the economy and more, according to City Desk ABQ.
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New Mexico election officials violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conservative group and its public online database, a federal judge has ruled.
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Two new laws aimed at curbing gun violence and intimidation in New Mexico are set to take effect next month.
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A New Mexico judge on Friday rejected an effort by a movie set armorer to challenge her conviction of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film "Rust." Plus, more than 70 wildfires starts so far this year on state and private land have burned just 400 acres, the lowest acreage consumed by fire compared with the same period over the last three years. But that doesn’t mean residents should rest easy.
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The man injured when Albuquerque’s Chief of Police ran a red light and crashed into his classic mustang is suing the city. Todd Perchert suffered a broken collarbone, broken shoulder, eight broken ribs, and a collapsed lung among other injuries when Harold Medina struck the driver’s side of Perchert’s 1966 Ford Mustang on February 17.
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WED: Downwinders call on public to pressure congress on RECA, Peña facing new federal charges + MoreAn effort to extend and expand compensation to people exposed to radiation from federal nuclear testing and uranium mining was not included in the $1.2 trillion funding package signed by President Joe Biden this week.